The elected President of the All India Kisan Sabha, which met in Vijayawada (1944), was
- A.Sahajananda Saraswati
- B.Vinoba Bhave
- C.Achyut Rao Patwardhan
- D.Narendra Dev
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Sahajananda Saraswati. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, the foremost peasant leader of Bihar, was elected President of the All India Kisan Sabha at its Vijayawada (Bezwada) session of 1944.
The All India Kisan Sabha was founded in April 1936 at Lucknow, alongside the Congress session there, with Swami Sahajanand Saraswati as its first President and N. G. Ranga as General Secretary. It demanded the abolition of zamindari, reduction of rent and the cancellation of peasant debts. Sahajanand had earlier built the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha in 1929 and led the bakasht land struggles, and he guided the all-India body through its early years.
Option B is wrong because Vinoba Bhave is known as the first individual satyagrahi of 1940 and later for the Bhoodan movement. Option C is wrong because Achyut Patwardhan was a Congress Socialist leader, known for his underground work in the Quit India Movement. Option D is wrong because Acharya Narendra Dev is remembered as a founder of the Congress Socialist Party in 1934.
Exam tip: All India Kisan Sabha, 1936 Lucknow; first President Sahajanand Saraswati, Secretary N. G. Ranga.
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